Ethnographic Ways of Knowing: A History Through the Work and Lives of Ten Methodological Innovators

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Lucinda Carspecken (Indiana University, USA)

Ethnographic Ways of Knowing

A History Through the Work and Lives of Ten Methodological Innovators

Lucinda Carspecken (Indiana University, USA)

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Routledge
14 June 2024

Research methods: general; Social & cultural anthropology; Moral & social purpose of education; Higher & further education, tertiary education

Series: Critical Ethnographic Research in Education

Drawing on the works of ten scholars and public intellectuals ranging over 200 years, this book foregrounds ways of knowing that include but go beyond the cognitive.

The book explores the work of Harriet Martineau, Jane Addams, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Ella Deloria, M. N. Srinivas, Barbara Myerhoff, Orlando Fals Borda, Ronald Takaki and Nawal El Saadawi. The author discusses their multifaceted ethnographic practices and argues that such practices are still under-acknowledged in contemporary research in comparison to cognition and categorization. These scholars were outsiders to their societies in a variety of ways. They highlighted power imbalances in the perception and representation of one group by another and brought direct experience, emotion, narrative, imagination, recognition, self-reflection, activism and cultural humility into their writing, in addition to rationality. The book engages with the authors and their ideas in the context of their times and places. It also reclaims them as methodological predecessors, noting their contributions to what educational ethnography has been and what it could be in the future.

Expanding the canon of social research history and providing insight into unique methodological forms, this text will be valuable for scholars and postgraduate students with interests in ethnography, as well as the history of research, anthropology and qualitative methods more broadly.

By: Lucinda Carspecken (Indiana University USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9781032354033
ISBN 10: 1032354038
Series: Critical Ethnographic Research in Education
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 14 June 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Lucinda Carspecken is a senior lecturer in Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology at Indiana University.